A Book of Common Prayer, CONTAINING A FORM OF PUBLIC WORSHIP, WITH RESPONSES, ADDITIONAL PRAYERS, A PSALTER, SCRIPTURE LESSONS, ARTICLES OF RELIGION, CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES, FOR THE USE OF CHURCHES, MISSIONARY CONGREGATIONS AND CHAPLAINS IN THE ARMY. THIRD EDITION. ALTON, ILLINOIS. From Chuldron of Res. Cazneau Vallery Transferred to Deveint School Entered according to act of Congress by J. G. FORMAN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court Stereotyped and Printed by A. Wiebusch & Son, PREFACE. THE Sources, from which this little work has been prepared, are the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church, the Liturgy of King's Chapel, Boston, the Service Books of the Church of the Disciples, Boston, and of the Church of the Messiah, St. Louis. Some alterations have been made, and a few original prayers, hymns, christian melodies and national anthems added. That I might render the work more useful, I have contributed some brief statements of Christian truths and duties, in the form of articles of religion, following the Scripture Lessons. These statements are given, not as a creed or profession of faith, but as an aid to the formation of religious principles, and are freely submitted to the private meditation and judgment of the reader. I have also added forms for the administration of the Christian rites and ordinances, and have endeavored to give to every part of the book a devout and cheerful spirit, and to make it an aid to religious devotion and the formation of Christian character, giving strength to the virtu's of hope, patience, resignation and trust, and encouraging the love of liberty and humanity. Having been prepared originally as a Soldier's Manual of Devotion, it still retains enough of that character to make it suited to the use of Chaplains in the army, as a book of army worship, while, by adopting the simple title of a Book of Common Prayer, it becomes equally useful as a Service or Prayer Book for Churches and Missionary Congregations, no provided with the larger and more expensive works of this kind. It has been unusual to include in a Service Book for the Church so many national and patriotic anthems, but as the work is intended to serve two purposes, to be used both in the army and in the Church, it has not been thought necessary to omit them; and besides there are many occasions in the services of the Church when patriotic hymns and national anthems fo in an appropriate part of the worship, such as the religio is observances of fast, thanksgiving and independence days, and during the great crises that occur in the progress of civil and religious liberty. The addition of a few prayers for family or social worship, and of brief forms for the administration of the Christian ordinances, have been made with a view to its better adaptation to the uses of the Church, and of Christian families, while it was felt that they would not render it less useful in the army, where there is also occasion, from time to time, for these observances. Invoking the blessing of heaven upon this humble effort to promote the cause of religion and liberty, and the love of country and humanity, in the ariny and among the people of the United States, the third edition of this little work is now commended to the religious and patriotic uses for which it is designed Alton, Ill., June 1. 1863. J. G. F. THE ORDER FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP. THE ORDER FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP. T The Minister may commence the service by reading one or more of the following sentences: The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised. Let our prayers be set forth in his sight as incense; and the lifting up of our hands as the evening sacrifice. When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the Most High God? He hath showed |